<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Balanced Blonde]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stream of consciousness on, well, everything. Book writing, spirituality, motherhood, influencing, peptides & wellness overall, being a (psychic) human. Can't wait to share it all xx]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_ZgG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F344b96c9-60e7-48eb-946a-6aea7b59125d_1280x1280.png</url><title>The Balanced Blonde</title><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:35:47 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[thebalancedblonde@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[thebalancedblonde@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[thebalancedblonde@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[thebalancedblonde@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[you loved the grabovoi codes so now i'm teaching you how to channel your very own personalized manifestation code]]></title><description><![CDATA[creating, channeling & downloading your very own grabovoi code unique to you, get ready for this to change your life]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-channeled-my-own-manifestation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-channeled-my-own-manifestation</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:18:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BhV3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f152a2d-8282-4607-8c60-655453fc24c5_1320x1825.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>i didn&#8217;t realize the grabovoi code post would end up being the </span><a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-discovered-the-nine-cheat-codes"><span>top read post on my entire substack</span></a><span> this summer, but the fact that it is shows me that you guys are ready for more when it comes to manifestation, numerology, declassified CIA documents (yep, this stuff has been deeply studied&#8212;the government just doesn&#8217;t want us to know it exists!) and basically the e</span><em><span>ssence </span></em><span>of quantum leaping which really is: you can have anything in the world that you can envision &amp; desire. </span></p><p><span>you just have to believe it&#8217;s possible. and that&#8217;s what these codes help you do. they assist you in opening your mind, broadening your perspective, and allowing yourself to see to believe that that dream life you&#8217;ve always carried in your back pocket? the only reason you want it is because it&#8217;s already yours. we basically just need to collapse time to bring it to you.</span></p><p><em><strong><span>i mean, i collapsed time with these codes between friday and now, because friday i said i wanted to hit #1 rising on substack, and look what i woke up to this morning&#8230; </span>&#129401;&#129401;&#129401;</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BhV3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f152a2d-8282-4607-8c60-655453fc24c5_1320x1825.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>ANYWAY, collapsing time. how do we do such a thing?! </span></p><p><strong><span>that&#8217;s where i come in as your trusty guide. ;)</span></strong></p><p><span>the grabovoi codes are freaking amazing (if you don&#8217;t know what i'm talking about, </span><a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/the-9-cheat-codes-of-the-universe"><span>go read this first</span></a><span> because this one is going to make SO much more sense with that one as the foundation) but sharing them with you guys and seeing how much they resonated also got me thinking&#8230; what if we could channel our OWN codes? grigori grabovoi discovered something absolutely gravity shifting in terms of numbers as energy, and doesn&#8217;t that ultimately just mean&#8230; so can we?!</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>so that&#8217;s what today&#8217;s post is about. we&#8217;re building upon numbers as frequency, and we&#8217;re taking it a step further and </span><em><span>channeling our own codes. </span></em><span>yes, by the time you finish this post, you will have channeled your own code (or set of codes) that will carry your dream life to you. the codes can be focused on money, abundance, love, career, health, ideal timeline, or anything </span><em><span>you </span></em><span>most desire in your life. </span></p><p><span>since numbers carry frequency, and frequency carries information, the grabovoi sequences are able to work like universal door codes for things like money, love, healing, timeline jumps. and the DM&#8217;s i've gotten from you guys have been out of control IN THE BEST WAY. see a few below:</span></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" 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also, almost immediately, a different question started flooding in underneath all the &#8220;omg it worked&#8221; messages, and it was some version of this:</span></strong></em></h3><p><em><span>&#8220;ok but what if i have a number that&#8217;s MINE. like, not on your list. what do i do with that.&#8221;</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8220;i keep seeing the same number everywhere and it&#8217;s not one of the 9 you gave us&#8230;&#8221;</span></em></p><p><em><span>&#8220;is it possible to have your own personal code that&#8217;s different from all of these???&#8221;</span></em></p><p><span>and you know what i'm going to say&#8230; YES. i'd argue it&#8217;s the deeper, more advanced practice, because the grabovoi codes are universal &#8212; they were engineered, tested, documented, they work basically the same for everyone who uses them with real belief behind them. but a personal code is not engineered. it&#8217;s not on a list. nobody hands it to you on a napkin (well&#8230; someone might, we&#8217;ll get there). a personal code is downloaded. it&#8217;s yours, and only yours, the way your voice is yours, the way your fingerprint is yours, the way no two snowflakes have ever once repeated themselves in the entire recorded history of snow.</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;channel your own code <3&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe"><span>channel your own code &lt;3</span></a></p><p><span>i have one. i&#8217;ve had it for 16 years. you actually already know it, duh because it&#8217;s 201, but when i started channeling for this post, 201 expanded into my VERY OWN PERSONALIZED TBB-ESQUE GRABOVOI CODE!! but instead of grabovoi, we&#8217;ll call it the </span><em><span>limitless codes </span></em><span>because why the hellll not?!?! </span></p><p><strong>in this post, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re getting into. channeling your VERY OWN code. make sure you read the <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-discovered-the-nine-cheat-codes">grabovoi codes post</a> first so that you understand where we&#8217;re going with this (there is so much science and &#8216;proof&#8217; behind these codes for any skeptics out there, but remember i don&#8217;t write to skeptics because it takes a high level of intelligence to BELIEVE in the esoteric anddd that&#8217;s where we all already vibrate &amp; exist in this community). and beyond that, we&#8217;re getting into what the pleiadians have to say about these codes, because you guys were asking me in the comments and i couldn&#8217;t resist doing a FULL channeling to bring you the tea!!!</strong></p><p><em>i&#8217;m going to walk you through what a personal code actually is (and how it&#8217;s different from a grabovoi code), the &#8220;why it works&#8221; science-adjacent stuff because i know y&#8217;all want it, how i found mine, and then &#8212; because SO many of you asked for exactly this in the DMs &#8212; an entire section channeled directly by the pleiadians on how to download and work with your own. i asked, they answered, i&#8217;m just the messenger (as always). and then a handful of practices to actually put it to work, because a number sitting in your notes app doing nothing is just a number.</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[dolly parton: astrology, numerology, and the completion of a soul that came in already knowing]]></title><description><![CDATA[pop culture astrology for a true icon & legend. you won&#8217;t want to miss this one]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/dolly-parton-astrology-numerology</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/dolly-parton-astrology-numerology</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:12:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pehx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8eefc65c-33b4-4616-ae24-40780572d496_1500x1975.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>something exceptionally intense is going on in the cosmos this month because every time i think i'm going to sit down and write a more personal piece (yes, my book update is coming&#8230; probably tomorrow!), i am pulled to something more immediate because of what&#8217;s going on in the world &#8212; especially in the world of pop culture, and the legends that keep passing this month. </p><p><span>this one is for our queen dolly parton, and i don&#8217;t use the term &#8216;queen&#8217; lightly. dolly is a true icon, a role model to all, and someone who remarkably was able to live in the light and spread kindness in every direction until the day she passed.</span></p><p>imagine writing thousands of songs, winning 11 grammy&#8217;s and getting 55 nominations, winning 10 CMA&#8217;s and multiple emmy&#8217;s, building an entire theme park, an entire town&#8217;s economy, an entire empire, out of a childhood with dirt floors and no shoes&#8230; and none of that is what&#8217;s flooding the internet right now. not one word of it. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>because what everyone is talking about is how dolly made every single person she ever met feel like the most important person in the room. how she stayed exactly, wildly, and fully herself under more pressure to change than almost anyone in her industry has ever survived. how she silently mailed a book to a child in need every single month for decades and never once made it about her. how she lifted other women up instead of guarding her own spot at the top.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>how julia roberts tried to get her to complain about being hot on set one day and dolly responded by saying: &#8220;when i was a little girl i wanted to be rich and famous. now 'm both of those things, so no, i'm never going to complain.&#8221; &#129401;</p></div><p><span>two days out from losing her, and i&#8217;ve had her songs playing on a loop in my head this entire time. i became freakishly obsessed with her song &#8216;9-5&#8217; about five years ago and it&#8217;s now my top played song on spotify, my kids know every single word and a whole choreographed dance i made up to it, so you can imagine&#8230; her legacy will live on in this house and so many. </span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;upgrade for the price of a latte&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe"><span>upgrade for the price of a latte</span></a></p><p><span>dolly IS the blueprint. so when the news broke this week that she&#8217;d passed at 80, surrounded by love, after a brief battle with cancer, i felt it the way i think a lot of us did, like something warm just went out of the world&#8217;s living room. she was 80. she&#8217;d just lost her husband of almost 59 years a little over a year before her. that alone tells you most of the story: a woman who loved someone for six decades, and then didn&#8217;t have to be without him for very long.</span></p><p><span>this one&#8217;s soft, my loves. a love letter dressed up in a birth chart, not a hunt for anything hidden. but i still did the astro, because i always do, and WOW&#8230; what i found in her chart and in the sky the day she left might be the most beautiful, most obviously written-in-the-sky deets i have ever pulled. let&#8217;s dive on in.</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. 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You will be making my dreams come true &amp; I promise to provide all of the value and then some. &lt;3 </p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><em><strong><span>a few of the things we&#8217;ll get into today&#8230;</span></strong></em></p><ul><li><p><span>dolly&#8217;s actual chart, and why her moon and rising sign are basically fused together, which matters more than you&#8217;d think</span></p></li><li><p><span>her insane capricorn stellium and what it has to do with the empire she built brick by brick, no handouts</span></p></li><li><p><span>the sky on the exact day she died, and the two transits that stopped me cold</span></p></li><li><p><span>what carl dean&#8217;s death last year has to do with any of this, astrologically speaking</span></p></li><li><p><span>the numbers, because obviously we&#8217;re doing the numbers&#8230; and while she mostly died of old age and illness, i always think the exact &#8216;dates&#8217; can tell us so much more than we could have ever previously imagined</span></p></li><li><p><span>my full download on what i think actually happened, energetically, the day she left</span></p></li></ul><h3><span>dolly&#8217;s chart, at a glance&#8230;</span></h3><p><em><span>and you know we&#8217;ll be continuing this convo in the paid subby&#8217;s group chat!! dolly had so many of our hearts and i want to hear everyone&#8217;s thoughts &#8212; plus your requests for who i should do next in our pop culture astro series.</span></em></p><p><em><span>**AND for any skeptics out there, dolly&#8217;s birth time is 100% accurate and there is no guesswork here, which always makes a celeb chart fun because we know we&#8217;re spot on, down to every last detail. &lt;3 </span></em></p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/thebalancedblonde/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;thebalancedblonde&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:1628357,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Balanced Blonde&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Younger&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wa-h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1eeaf8c-8020-4892-8a86-d326caa919bc_2401x3600.jpeg&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[lindsay clancy: the astrology behind postpartum psychosis, and the night everything broke]]></title><description><![CDATA[and a love note to cora, dawson, and callan. the conspira-tea you came for, plus the truth always comes to light]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/lindsay-clancy-the-astrology-behind</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/lindsay-clancy-the-astrology-behind</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:49:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iWuW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5968895-e586-4721-97e4-9c7b04047536_1328x747.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>i&#8217;ve been sitting on this one for a while, unsure if i should write it at all. i know i&#8217;ll get some heat from this deep dive, but that&#8217;s okay. ultimately my mission here with my substack (and my longtime pop culture astro series on my </span><a href="http://bit.ly/TBBpodcast"><span>podcast</span></a><span>) is to ask the tough questions, go deep, shine a light on all things human through the cosmic realms of astrology, dissect the very nature of humanity, and of course&#8230; get into the conspira-tea.</span></p><p><span>because i never believe what the mainstream is saying. like, ever. so know that as you read on. ;)</span></p><p><span>also, i'm not a regular astrologer. i'm a quantum investigator through dimensions and timelines. i'm also not afraid of a lil backlash. that combination brings us to where we are today&#8230; the lindsay clancy trial, through the lens of astrology. </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" 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/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41b956c2-6f98-4728-916a-4a7609a930a6_356x200.gif 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vlLH!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41b956c2-6f98-4728-916a-4a7609a930a6_356x200.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong><span>before we get ANY further&#8230; know this:</span></strong><span> i'm a mother. i&#8217;ve had my own postpartum seasons that showed me just how intense and otherworldly the postpartum rollercoaster can go, and i have tried several medications for my own panic disorder, which thankfully helped me very much when i needed them most. so when i tell you this story wrecked something in me, i mean that as someone who has stood close enough to that particular edge to recognize the terrain, not as someone speaking about it from a safe distance. &lt;3</span></p><p><span>and while i&#8217;ve never experienced postpartum psychosis, my panic disorder at the time led me to believe that i was on the verge of psychosis (i was not, but still that shit is scarier than life) and well&#8212;that opens my eyes to a few possibilities. one of which was lindsay&#8217;s extreme vulnerability to manipulation&#8230; which we will get into. </span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I promise to bring you ALL the value and then some&#8230;</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><span>a little background in case you are unfamiliar: lindsay clancy has been charged with the deaths of her three children, cora, dawson, and callan, in duxbury, massachusetts, on january 24, 2023. she is on trial right now, this month, as i write this. s</span><em><span>he has pleaded not guilty. </span></em><span>her own defense has said she caused their deaths and is arguing she should not be held criminally responsible because of severe postpartum psychosis and overmedication. prosecutors are arguing premeditation. the jury has yet to make their ruling. </span></p><p><span>we&#8217;re getting into lindsay&#8217;s chart today, as well as her ex-husband patrick&#8217;s chart. </span>and while their astrology won&#8217;t give us a verdict (i mean that would be wild, wouldn&#8217;t it?)<span> what a birth chart CAN hand me is a person&#8217;s blueprint. how someone is built, their life as it was written in the stars before they came here, and where the pressure sits when life gets challenging. where the cracks were always going to form if enough weight got stacked on top of them. and where vulnerability might be able to creep all the way in&#8230; </span></p><p><span>no matter what happened and no matter who did it, i am sure most people reading right now have an opinion on who did it and what really happened behind closed doors that evening&#8230; one thing we can all agree on is that lindsay and her children were absolutely failed by the system. she was overmedicated, written off, sent home when she should have remained hospitalized, and was absolutely not receiving the proper support from her husband (WHATSOEVER). she cried for help many, many, many times and was still left helpless. that fact is a non-negotiable. </span></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/lindsay-clancy-the-astrology-behind?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This one needs to be shared, we&#8217;ve gotta get this convo going far and wide. If you feel inspired, please share with a friend who would be interested. &lt;3 </p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/lindsay-clancy-the-astrology-behind?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/lindsay-clancy-the-astrology-behind?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p><span>so let&#8217;s go all the way into it, with the same grace and reverence i try to bring to every soul i write about here, and MOST OF ALL with the utmost respect, love, and eternal peace to our angels cora, dawson, and callan. this is in reverence to them, first and foremost. &lt;3 </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>a few of the deeper things we will be exploring in this post&#8230;</strong></p><ul><li><p>the compatibility (or lack thereof) between lindsay&#8217;s &amp; patrick&#8217;s charts</p></li><li><p>lindsay having the EXACT SAME big 3, north node, capricorn stellium (and more) <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/hayden-panettiere-astrology-conspira">that hayden panettiere has</a>, and what i believe that means for both women being in the spotlight right now</p></li><li><p>the conspira-tea and the deeper questions&#8230; do the timelines add up? did patrick manipulate lindsay into believing he did it? if so, what was his motive?</p></li><li><p>if lindsay DID do it&#8230; why are so many mothers around the globe standing behind her right now?</p></li><li><p>the deeper questions surrounding postpartum psychosis and how that relates to lindsay&#8217;s chart, and what we can do to support other mothers who are going through something similar</p></li><li><p>the new paradigm of motherhood and what we can put into place for mothers moving forward so this never happens to another family &lt;3 </p></li></ul><p><strong>also, let&#8217;s keep this convo going in the subscriber chat, paid fam, let&#8217;s go IN on this one:</strong></p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/thebalancedblonde/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;thebalancedblonde&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:1628357,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Balanced Blonde&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Younger&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wa-h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1eeaf8c-8020-4892-8a86-d326caa919bc_2401x3600.jpeg&quot;}}" 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[hayden panettiere: astrology, the nodes, the number 816, and what hollywood doesn't want said]]></title><description><![CDATA[we&#8217;re going there today. pop culture astrology is back]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/hayden-panettiere-astrology-conspira</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/hayden-panettiere-astrology-conspira</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:49:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGfp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa2268be-fda7-414d-ac97-7829950f693f_399x501.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i&#8217;ve always felt a connection to hayden panettiere. </p><p>perhaps it was growing up the same age as her, consistently being told i was her doppelg&#228;nger when i was young, <em>remember the titans </em>being my favorite movie of all time&#8230; or simply being drawn to her soul, i may never know. but no matter what, the connection was strong.</p><p>so of course the news of her passing this past week absolutely rocked me. in fact, i had to go back in my instagram messages to see if we&#8217;d ever been in contact (we hadn&#8217;t), because i&#8217;ve thought about her <em>so much </em>this entire week, i started thinking that maybe we had chatted once or twice and i'd forgotten. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uGfp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa2268be-fda7-414d-ac97-7829950f693f_399x501.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>but no, our connection was only in the soul realm. and in the soul realm it will remain. i was very back and forth on writing this article, as i never want to use someone else&#8217;s tragedy in vain, but after polling my audience and sitting with it for several days i realized i am not the only person who felt remarkably close to hayden without in fact knowing her. and so many of us feel so drawn to her lightness and purity as a soul, it would be a disservice to not write about her. </p><p>not to mention, tuning into her recent interviews (specifically on jay shetty), it was clear watching it as an empathic intuitive who ALSO gets extremely nervous to be interviewed and has been torn apart by the media many times myself&#8212;that she was not well. something was really not okay there. as we now know to be true. so that&#8217;s something i want to dissect when it comes to astrology&#8230; &lt;3</p><p>so as you read on, know that everything shared in this article is written with the utmost respect, love, and reverence for hayden and her family. i pray for only the highest and greatest good for her daughter and all whom she left behind. i also don&#8217;t want this to be a sad article (!!) because i am in the business of bringing joy even in challenging times, so in the words below you can expect an astrology dissection as well as some serious questions that point toward &#8220;thoughts&#8221; that have come up around hayden&#8217;s passing.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I promise to provide more value than you can imagine. &lt;3 </p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>so yes, we&#8217;re going there with the conspiracies. but instead of using that word, i like to call it conspira-tea &#8212; because if there&#8217;s anything the new paradigm world has taught us, it&#8217;s that where there is smoke, there is fire. most of the &#8216;conspiracies&#8217; i&#8217;ve stood behind in recent years have eventually simply been proven as fact. and if we&#8217;re writing an article in the highest and most loving light when it comes to hayden&#8217;s legacy, i would be remiss not to get into the details that i&#8217;ve been looking into.</p><p>and SPEAKING OF conspira-tea&#8230; i am currently writing a post about the lindsay clancy trial as well, and lindsay and hayden have the <em><strong>exact same big three. </strong></em>the same sun, moon, rising. so much so that i got confused when pulling their charts because i could barely tell them apart. they are also both 36. no coincidences. especially when the cosmos is always speaking to us. </p><p>but back to hayden&#8230; and the details. because yes, perhaps her death was an overdose. and if so, that is tragic. it&#8217;s always heart shattering when a light-filled human leaves this earth far too soon, especially leaving a daughter behind. but perhaps it ran deeper than that. perhaps hayden was one of the few brave souls who truly planned to speak out about what happens behind the scenes in hollywood. and when people do that&#8230; we know what happens.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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yes, we&#8217;re going all in today. all from the lens of astrology, as an ode to my OG pop culture astrology podcast episodes. i am not doing my podcast at the moment, so you guys have to deal with me in written form. :) but you can always press the &#8220;listen&#8221; button at the top of this page to listen to this post like a podcast!</p><p>ready? let&#8217;s dive on in. if you like to ask the deeper questions, look at the world through the lens of the cosmos, and feel any sort of connection to the beautiful soul that hayden is and was, read on&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[i wrote down nine numbers and my whole life shifted. the grabovoi codes that can change your entire world]]></title><description><![CDATA[the grabovoi codes, numerology, and using numbers to manifest your dream reality]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-discovered-the-nine-cheat-codes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-discovered-the-nine-cheat-codes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:16:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1CdA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff61c33f9-daf3-454f-ab62-b47b39c8059a_453x604.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>"if you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6, and 9, then you would have the key to the universe."</em> - attributed to nikola tesla</p><div><hr></div><p>numbers. we all know that they fascinate me. the number 201 has followed me for the last 16 years, beginning in 2010 (also a 201, of course) and has also started to show up in all of my closest peoples&#8217; lives as well as so many of you who have been following for many years.</p><p>and when you really look at it, 201 is a 3 (2+0+1=3), which i happen to love because in numerology and manifestation by number lore, nikola tesla had an absolute fascination with 3&#8217;s. it is said that he would only stay in hotel rooms with numbers divisible by 3, he would walk around a building three times before entering, and had to clean his silverware with 18 napkins exactly (6x3=18). </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>^ from when the 201&#8217;s first began!! studying abroad in Florence, and every single hotel/hostel we got to i was placed in another room #201&#8230; EVERY TIME. </em></p><p>so&#8230; when i look deeper into my 201 fascination, i love that it is a 3. all of the best things that have ever happened to me have a 201 in them, down to my son&#8217;s birthday, 12/21/21, my literary agent&#8217;s first office, my grandfather&#8217;s room in his final retirement home before he passed, the number on my dashboard <em>and </em>the amount of gas in my car the day my grandpa passed, i lived in 201 apartment numbers all the way up until we moved into this house&#8230; i see 2:01 on the clock every day, the list goes on and on and on!</p><p>in numerology, 3 is tied to self-expression. i could go on for days and YEARS about what the number 3 means to me, but today i want to talk about something a bit more universal to all of us&#8230; which is the fact that we can literally manifest our wildest desires using, yep you guessed it, NUMBERS. and this phenomenon is known as the grabovoi codes. i call them the &#8220;9 cheat codes of the universe.&#8221;</p><p>once you know them, you can&#8217;t un-know them.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I promise to over-deliver, every single time. :) </p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>in this post, i'm going to tell you what they are, exactly how to use them, how they changed my own life (because duh without personal details it&#8217;s just a bunch of numbers to you), the history, WHY IT WORKS, what the pleiadians have to say about it, and so much more.</p><p><em><strong>when i posted this on my notes a few weeks ago, my DM&#8217;s went CRAZY. i knew this post needed to come to life asap, so here we are:</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>people started messaging me off the hooooook saying&#8230;  "wait what are these." "do these actually work." "screenshotted before i even finished reading the caption." &#8220;we need the TEA and what to actually do with these!!!&#8221;</p><p>so let&#8217;s get into the full breakdown&#8230; because yes, numbers can change your life. and no, this isn&#8217;t &#8220;woo&#8221; (i mean well kind of), there is a legit science to this so get ready to have your mind blown!! </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;read it in full <3&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe"><span>read it in full &lt;3</span></a></p><h3><span>so, what even are grabovoi codes?</span></h3>
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for. i cannot believe <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-took-two-weeks-off-of-peptides">the last time</a> i wrote about peptides was in may, right after i took my two week peptide break and realized that they in fact ~were~ responsible for saving my whole entire life.</p><p>i also cannot believe that it&#8217;s been a year since i started taking peptides. a whole year of living free from the chronic inflammation that&#8217;s plagued me since i was born, a whole year of having enough energy to quantum leap into the best version of myself, a year to dream big and actually pursue those dreams. the first year of my life where i wasn&#8217;t stuck in the prison of a sick body. </p><p>wow, what i think of it that way&#8230; i am so grateful i could cry. &#128557;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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June 2025 &gt; July 2026.</em></p><p>you may notice i don&#8217;t talk about peptides quite as much as i used to when i first started taking them, and that&#8217;s because the internet as a whole has decided that peptides are not an acceptable thing to discuss. and while i don&#8217;t give a single flying sh*t about that, what i do need to preserve is my ability to reach you guys on instagram and not get shadow banned or deleted!</p><p>no really, people talking about peptides (doctors, nurses, and fellow patients like myself trying to help people) are getting their accounts completely wiped from meta for just uttering the word &#8220;peptides.&#8221; it&#8217;s so scary, and since peps are a PART of what i am passionate about sharing but are not my entire brand by any means, i&#8217;ve had to make the executive decision to talk about them sparingly but save all of the juicy, deep dive info for substack.</p><p>honestly, once again, THANK GOD for substack for that reason and for all reasons, where we can talk freely and there are not bans on what we can discuss or how we discuss it. freedom of speech is wildly important. especially as a writer, and someone who has been completely screwed and had my life nearly ruined by conventional medicine and the mainstream, being able to speak freely is VERY important to me. </p><p><strong>so&#8230; the peptide update you&#8217;ve been begging for is here! nothing is held back! </strong>today i'm sharing with you my updated peptide stack, 13 months in!! plus where i get them, what my cycling schedule looks like, how much my life has changed in the last 13 months because of peps, my beliefs about lyme disease and peptides, and even more of my thoughts about <em>why</em> conventional medicine / big pharma does not want us to be able to talk freely about peps (namely: because they&#8217;re healing people). </p><p>this is the post to upgrade for, trust me. and when you do, you also get access to the full <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/t/peptides">peptide archives</a> as well as the <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/archive">paid archives</a> in general! read on. &#129299;</p><div><hr></div><p>and if you don&#8217;t upgrade to read this (which you should!!), i at least want you to know where i get my peptides. i buy them from the most trustworthy source out there, <a href="http://elliemd.com/thebalancedblonde">which is here</a>. from that link you can buy any/all of the peps i discuss in this post, you just have to create an account first to see their full range of options. you know i do THE WORK for us all to make sure these peps are quality, trustworthy, highest vibrational, all the things, and they are.</p><p><em>(and when you do buy through me, you get to join my exclusive peptides WhatsApp group!! but you have to email me ur receipt first or else i won&#8217;t know to add you!!) xx</em></p><h3>now, here&#8217;s the juice you came here for&#8230;</h3><p>this is what i looked like in June, 2025. the most vulnerable photo of all time: </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[how i broke my glass ceiling for real & started making six-figures a month (consistently)]]></title><description><![CDATA[and the future-self life scripting technique that changed my life]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/how-i-broke-my-glass-ceiling-for</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/how-i-broke-my-glass-ceiling-for</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:08:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c7gd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>let&#8217;s talk about glass ceilings.</p><p>we all have them.</p><p>and we can all break through them. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c7gd!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c7gd!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c7gd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png" width="1456" height="819" 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/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c7gd!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_848, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c7gd!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c7gd!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a263606-a7db-4ff6-972d-e2d042b14a13_1672x941.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>it doesn&#8217;t matter where you fall on the spectrum of self-worth and busting past limiting beliefs, even theeee most successful people in the world have subconscious glass ceilings in their minds that they need to reprogram. </p><p>for some people, maybe it&#8217;s not about money, or career, or fame, or the amount of eyeballs you&#8217;re willing to have on you, or going after your dreams with wild abandon. for some maybe it shows up in relationships, or health, or romantic love, or parenting. because let me tell you, i&#8217;ve been in rooms with the leaders in my industry time and time again&#8212;and just because someone is at the top of their game doesn&#8217;t mean they have it all figured out in <em>every </em>area of life.</p><p>actually sometimes, the more success they have in one area, the more the other areas suffer. but it doesn&#8217;t HAVE to be that way. so i became determined to figure out how to make sure that never happened to me. </p><p>there are a few ways we can bust past those beliefs, and i believe there are a handful of people existing out there in the world right now who are FREE from any/all glass ceilings. you know the ones. they&#8217;re absolutely on fire. they&#8217;re thriving in all areas. they have nothing holding them back anywhere at all. they work hard but they know what really matters in life, and they are not fooled by smoke and mirrors. </p><p><strong>it is my goal to become one of those people.</strong></p><p><strong>and i believe that to be one of those people, you must work through your life bucket by bucket and see where you still have limiting beliefs lingering around.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You will be supporting my wildest dreams coming true&#8230; it means more to me than you know!</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>the big buckets in life are typically health, money, career, family, romantic love, self-worth, friendship, creative expression, assets, and so on. </p><p>so at the top of the year, because i am a serial entrepreneur through and through&#8230; i started asking myself the question: &#8220;what is my financial glass ceiling? and what can i do to bust all the way through it and shatter it into smithereens?&#8221;</p><p><strong>and pretty quickly, the rough number became clear to me. </strong></p><p>i've been in this influencing space for a long time. fourteen years to be exact! and for the majority of those years, i&#8217;ve made a similar number every year. for over a decade&#8230; i didn&#8217;t even look at those numbers! i felt freedom, i knew i was doing well, and i knew my team had the exact financials handled.</p><p>but in recent years, the financial details on the backend started to pique my interest more and more.</p><p>you&#8217;ve probably noticed, if you&#8217;ve followed along for a long time, because whereas i used to never talk about money (i thought it was tacky and taboo and truly ick behavior), i now talk about it openly and freely. i realized that me <em>believing </em>that talking about it was tacky and ick, was actually a glass ceiling in and of itself. because what is a glass ceiling, anyway?</p><p>a glass ceiling, in my view, is an invisible limit we place on what we believe we&#8217;re allowed to have, hold, receive, become, or even speak about. and the wild part is that most of the time, we don&#8217;t even know it&#8217;s there&#8230; we just call it our personality, our values, or in my case&#8230; it was so important to me to BE HUMBLE and not be annoying and not rub anyone the wrong way, that i thought talking about money was only reserved for people who didn&#8217;t actually grow up having money. and because i did grow up around it&#8230; i felt it was off limits for me.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>limiting belief, much? or actually&#8230; <em>inherited</em> belief, much? </p></div><p>underneath that belief is usually the fear or feeling that&#8217;s running the whole show, and that&#8217;s the more interesting part that i really wanted to examine. for me, the question was, <em>&#8220;what would happen if i made more than that number i roughly make every year, and what would happen if i doubled, tripled, or quadrupled it?&#8221;</em></p><p>and right then and there, my limiting belief was WILDLY clear to me. </p><p>read on to hear about what it was, how i busted past it, the exact scripting i used to rewrite the <em>story of my life </em>when it comes to financial glass ceilings (and soon enough, all glass ceilings in general&#8212;THIS WILL BE YOUR FAVE THING EVER), what that looks like for me with visibility, work, and life in general.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;upgrade to uplevel <3&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe"><span>upgrade to uplevel &lt;3</span></a></p><p><strong>ready? this one is about to be the most vulnerable heart-spill of all time. let&#8217;s go. </strong></p><p>my biggest limiting belief around making more money was&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[why all the spiritual baddies and psychic aliens have been sick & exhausted all summer (plus eclipse tea!)]]></title><description><![CDATA[i've had the ascension flu all summer & i have theoriesssss]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/everyone-is-exhausted-right-now-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/everyone-is-exhausted-right-now-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:38:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m3F_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e57ce66-8775-43c4-aa08-f41668b216fe_1320x2319.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi my loves! we are in a crazyyyy portal right now, and while i know i say that so often, i mean it for reals right now &#8212; this is a portal. and it&#8217;s wiping so many of us out in ways we cannot even begin to fathom or comprehend, and i obvi have THEORIES. </p><p>i don&#8217;t even need to name it, because i know you feel it. but if i had to give it a name&#8230; i'd call it a new-paradigm-induced-awakening plus a soul&#8217;s-reminder-to-wake-the-F-up plus a kick in the pants to remind us all how powerful we are, to slow the heck down, and to integrate the lessons that have been pouring through all summer&#8230; first during the initial <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/what-the-cern-how-to-use-this-four">CERN shutdown</a>, then the <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/the-lunar-nodes-have-just-shifted">nodal shifts</a>, then during <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/july-19-27-is-a-once-in-a-century">barbault&#8217;s basket</a>, then during the <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/5-things-no-one-else-is-telling-you">lion&#8217;s gate</a>, and now leading up to tomorrow&#8217;s eclipse. </p><p><strong>IT&#8217;S A LOT. AM I RIGHT??? in non-astro-girly terms: </strong>we&#8217;re all exhausted and we have been sick this summer more times than any of us can count. i can actually count on one singular hand how many days i have NOT been sick this summer, which is so wild. especially because it&#8217;s SUMMER. this is supposed to be healthy season!! </p><p>no really, i posted this on instagram a few days ago and the amount of responses i got from people all over the world confirmed it for me&#8230; this is just not just a <em>me</em> thing or a <em>psychic</em> <em>person</em> thing&#8230; it&#8217;s an everyone thing. or, everyone whose at least a little tapped in at least person thing&#8230; <strong>exhibit A, below:</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>and a few of the comments (there were thousands, it was a trial reel!):</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TJ53!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff6846990-cb34-4474-a63f-e0b5a05e7117_1320x1283.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TJ53!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_424, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff6846990-cb34-4474-a63f-e0b5a05e7117_1320x1283.jpeg 424w, 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because it was a trial reel, these comments were not even from within tbb community &#8212; which i must note because in our spiritual-wellness-y bubble we&#8217;re often feeling similar things at similar times, but this is a whoooole new ballgame. </p><p>so i&#8217;ve taken it upon myself to do a deep dive, some investigative journalism if you will, about WHY so many of us are feeling this way this summer, especially the most powerful, psychic, witchy women who are on the brink of making the WILDEST changes in their lives and quantum leaping into their whole next season of life &#8212; surpassing every glass ceiling they ever once believe they have to live under and so much more.</p><p>you ready for this one? i'm about to hit ya hard.</p><p>LET&#8217;S GET INTO IT! and i'll also tell you ALL about tomorrow&#8217;s eclipse in Leo&#8230; because this is the juice you need to know. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;upgrade for the tea&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/"><span>upgrade for the tea</span></a></p><p>but baby get ready, because you knooowww i never hold back. i'm probably about to say a few few things that trigger the s-h-i-t out of you. if you&#8217;re in an era of your life where you are choosing COMFORT over AWAKENING&#8230; get ready for me to not so gently help you blow the lid off of it, k?</p><p>k. right. so&#8230;</p><p><strong>let&#8217;s blow the effing lid off of your comfort, staying-small, not-believing in yourself era&#8230; and here&#8217;s step one: </strong></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[the lion's gate portal won't change your life, but YOU will. here's how]]></title><description><![CDATA[the 8/8/8 numerology nobody's talking about, the ascension flu that changed my mind about writing this, and exactly what to do with tomorrow's energy]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/5-things-no-one-else-is-telling-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/5-things-no-one-else-is-telling-you</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:51:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IGNS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e318c2d-cffc-4b77-bfc6-ee71177e659d_5712x4284.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my loves! we&#8217;re currently in the middle of the lion&#8217;s gate portal, and i wasn&#8217;t feeling the pull to write about it at first because normally when something is being talked about <em>everywhere</em>, it loses its appeal to me (aquarius north node to my core, haha), but then&#8230; i started experiencing thing after thing this week that made me think, &#8220;NO. i'm writing about it. LFG.&#8221;</p><p>this is a massive opening for miracles and most of all, CHANGE, and i want you all to dive into the portal with meeee, so why not?!! but as always, we&#8217;re gonna come at it from a different lens. you&#8217;re not going to hear me say, &#8220;light a candle, do a meditation, take a salt bath and your life will change tomorrow&#8221; simply because it&#8217;s 8/8.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IGNS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e318c2d-cffc-4b77-bfc6-ee71177e659d_5712x4284.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IGNS!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_424, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_webp, 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comes to <em><strong>me &#8212; </strong></em>i have to feel freakishly pulled to write about something, because it means i'm going into the full-on vortex and that&#8217;s my task at hand for the day, ya know? </p><p><em><strong>so that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at. :)</strong></em></p><p>BUT ULTIMATELY&#8230; what made me know that it was a must to write about the lion&#8217;s gate today, is that i have been <em>living</em> in the literal <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-dont-believe-in-sickness-i-believe">ascension flu</a> this entire summer. i&#8217;ve been sick upwards of 7 times, with the most random and very intense physical ailments. and this week i really started examining&#8230; what is this? what&#8217;s going on? how can i shift this? what portal can i walk through, during this very potent week in the cosmos, to make a real transition out of this constant era of being totally wiped out and down for the count?</p><p>and of course, once i asked&#8230; the universe started to send me the signs.</p><p><strong>things i'm still avoiding, things i'm still not saying no to even though i </strong><em><strong>know</strong></em><strong> i have to, the uncomfortable layers beneath the surface of it all&#8212;most of all, where am i still performing instead of just fucking being myself???!?!?!?</strong></p><p>SO. if you feel like you&#8217;re standing between the life you&#8217;ve always lived and the life that has been trying to find you&#8230; tomorrow is a good freaking portal for you.</p><p>and if that is you, read on.</p><p>in this post i'll tell you the 5 things no one else is telling you about the lion&#8217;s gate portal (at least, i don&#8217;t think they are!), the exact things showing up in my life that made me realize how important this portal really is, and exactly what you can do to harness this energy&#8230; from a quantum, new paradigm level, not from a basic &#8220;here&#8217;s today&#8217;s astro&#8221; level. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[you can have it all, but you cannot do it all. the truth of how I juggle it all as a full-time working mom]]></title><description><![CDATA[how i actually "do it all" as a full-time working mom of two]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/you-can-have-it-all-but-you-cannot</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/you-can-have-it-all-but-you-cannot</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:52:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4W0b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79562566-6629-4b7e-875f-17709cf6d2b2_1110x1476.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi my loves!</p><p>first of all, ahhhh how good does it feel to be writing to you today. between our trip to hawaii, relaunching <a href="https://jordan-younger.mykajabi.com/substack-limitless-course-2">limitless</a> for cohort 2, getting sick and dealing with the <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-dont-believe-in-sickness-i-believe">ascension flu</a> about 7x, and trying to juggle all the other myriad of things popping up in life, i feel like the one thing i want to do <em>most</em> (write on substack) took a back seat for a week or two.</p><p>so hey, hi, i'm back. even though i was still posting consistently &#128514; but i want to be writing EVERY DAY. this space means the literal world to me, and now that limitless is back in the world and cohort 2 is off to the races, i can take a deep, resounding, siiiighhh and say: HELLO!! writer alien mama is back, and i have about a bajillion content ideas for you guys. in fact, i'll share them below the paywall and you can vote on which you wanna see first, and in which order!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79562566-6629-4b7e-875f-17709cf6d2b2_1110x1476.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4W0b!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_848, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79562566-6629-4b7e-875f-17709cf6d2b2_1110x1476.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4W0b!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79562566-6629-4b7e-875f-17709cf6d2b2_1110x1476.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4W0b!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79562566-6629-4b7e-875f-17709cf6d2b2_1110x1476.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>today i wanted to talk about something wildly important to me, which is debunking the myth of &#8220;doing it all.&#8221; probably the top asked question i get in my DM&#8217;s (aside from <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-took-two-weeks-off-of-peptides">peptides</a>!!) is, &#8220;but how do you really do so much all of the time, and how are you not falling apart because of it?&#8221; </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>specifically&#8230; how do i work so much as a mom, how do i have this constant stream of output, take care of yourself and workout and travel and live AND show up as a loving wife, a devoted friend, and a present mom who is with her kids so much, is part of the most special homeschool pod of all time, etc. etc.</p><p>i'm here to tell you&#8230; you can literally have it all. you can have it ALL!! there are zero limits. do you hear that? let&#8217;s tattoo it on our foreheads, shall we? we. can. have. it. all. the dream motherhood, the bustling career, the soulmate marriage, the drive for more, the most soul-deep friendships, the list goes on. but, here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; we cannot DO it all. at least, not all at once. and anyone who tells you otherwise is, sadly, lying.</p><p>YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL. BUT YOU CANNOT DO IT ALL (AT LEAST, NOT ALL AT ONCE.)</p><p><strong>now, let&#8217;s get into it.</strong> i'll tell you&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>what it actually looks like for me to do &#8220;do it all,&#8221;</p></li><li><p>the EXACT breakdown of the help/village that we have,</p></li><li><p>where our resources go each week to make sure our kids are taken care of in the best and most aligned way possible,</p></li><li><p>a snippet of my <em>exact</em> schedule from waking up to going to bed and how much of that is allocated toward work, play, family, etc&#8230;</p></li><li><p>how it shows up in our marriage (hint: it&#8217;s not always rainbows when you&#8217;re juggling so much&#8230;),</p></li><li><p>the truth of how hard (yet fulfilling) it can be to be the self-appointed breadwinner <em>and</em> homeschool (pod, co-op, not the actual teacher hahah but still) mom, all at the same time. </p></li><li><p>how i tap into an infinite well of creativity and go HAM while i am in the vortex / 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew my substack to $350k yearly in under a year, and you can too. here's how]]></title><description><![CDATA[i'm spilling the tea for you today, you ready?]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-to-350k-yearly</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-to-350k-yearly</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:47:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zs7Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0304b556-4145-4571-bc6d-510f998eb4bc_1320x2333.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi from maui!! i&#8217;ve been in such an inspiration vortex here, with absolutely zero time to create anything (present mom, doing all the things) so prepare for an influx of heart spills and creative queen-shit overload to spew forth over the next few weeks once we get back and i can gather myself into a little corner and write until i drop!! </p><p>but in the meantime, i did want to pop on and share this <em>free</em> post, a bit of a quick-and-dirty one for me (i normally can&#8217;t stop myself before 3,500 words minimum but we&#8217;re trying here today ok) to tell you a thing or two about how i&#8217;ve grown my substack to $350k ARR in about 10 months&#8230; and how you can, too.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zs7Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0304b556-4145-4571-bc6d-510f998eb4bc_1320x2333.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zs7Q!, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>this post is inspired by a very <em>discouraging</em> article i saw about how &#8220;substack is on the decline&#8221; blah blah blah because it&#8217;s &#8220;become too much like other social media platforms&#8221; (in quotes, bc not true), it rewards the constant marketing and the newsfeed drips and the quippy, shareable content instead of the long-form deep dives and genuine heart-to-soul writing that drips into people&#8217;s minds like warm, gooey honey&#8230; and i'd like to offer a completely different perspective:</p><p>what if the complete opposite were true, and substack were on the rise? what if perhaps certain people feel like it&#8217;s on the decline because&#8230; and forgive me if this is crass because i really mean this to be taken as constructive criticism more than anything else&#8230; because their writing just isn&#8217;t that resonant or alive? because their following just isn&#8217;t that dedicated? because perhaps they have something to say (WE ALL DO) but they don&#8217;t know how to say it, and they certainly don&#8217;t know how to market it?</p><p><strong>hi. hello. what&#8217;s up. </strong>that&#8217;s where i come in. because i can teach you (AND I WILL) how to get past this. insert: <a href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2">limitless</a>. but more on that in a hot minute.</p><p>first&#8230; why trust me? not only am i a writer in my bonessss for life life life, but i am also a born and bred marketer. well, i've been an influencer since i was about 8 years old. i&#8217;ve been creating content like my life depends on it since the first time i got my hands on a dial-up computer. and if i MAY give you some tough love big sister advice&#8230; maybe just maybe, if your substack is not growing but is instead dwindling to a pulp, maybe you are not living in your most limitless aligned energy yet? maybe it&#8217;s time to switch up your content and give more of your soul?</p><p><strong>because look. here&#8217;s the cold, hard truth:</strong> it&#8217;s ridiculously possible to grow (like ridiculously, almost painfully easy if you ask me), BUT&#8230; not without a lot of hard work. hours, consistency, showing up when no one&#8217;s listening, showing up when the world doesn&#8217;t care yet and you have yet to magnetize your words to your loyal diehards, creative awakening, reprogramming your mind, spilling your soul onto the page, doing it again and again and AGAIN until, poof, something changes&#8230; you start to grow. </p><p>it could take a day, a week, a year, two years, five years&#8230; and that&#8217;s why you have to be in it because you freaking love it. you can&#8217;t show up to substack with the immediate notion of &#8220;i'm here to get paid&#8221; or &#8220;i'm not i'm not getting paid yet&#8221; and certainly not with the &#8220;ugh i'm mad that all the INFLUENCERS are doing so well here, substack is such a sellout&#8221; attitude.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;join us in limitless!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2"><span>join us in limitless!</span></a></p><p>not to say you have to do it the way i did it, but i blogged professionally for fourteen years 100% for free before i moved over to substack and turned on the paid feature. every day 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>and i absolutely don&#8217;t blame anyone who feels like substack is on the decline&#8212;if anything, i feel for them. it&#8217;s hard to be a true-blue, words-loving, depth-slinging writer out here in the Wild West of the inter web ethers!! it&#8217;s not easy to watch platforms get inundated by short form content and for the OG&#8217;s of each internet space to get weeded out by the bigger, already famous big guns like glennon doyle, mel robbins, etc. etc.</p><p>but just because it&#8217;s not easy doesn't mean it&#8217;s time to throw in the towel.</p><p>just because someone&#8217;s follower count may be going down doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s the end of growth and $$ for them on substack.</p><p><strong>all it means is that it&#8217;s time for a refresh!!!! the things i would recommend first and foremost would be:</strong></p><ol><li><p>consistency at all costs. don&#8217;t give your followers nothing to work with&#8212;give them something to pay for and STAY for. (if monetization is your goal.) if you&#8217;re giving 50% of you, start giving 100% of you. that&#8217;s what your paid subs deserve and also it&#8217;s what your inner creative/artist/child deserves, too. (TO POUR INTO YOUR CRAFT.)</p></li><li><p>stop complaining about the platform. no really&#8230; just stop. it&#8217;s not something people are eager to follow along with. sure, you may be able to commiserate with people who feel the same way, but your negativity will become a self-fulfilling prophecy because words are spells, we receive what we put out, and what we believe about our lives will always, always, always become our reality.</p></li><li><p>replace your complaints with a <a href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2">limitless</a> mentality. what does that mean? it means&#8230; get rid of the glass ceilings in your mind and heart about what your success could look like. if you made $50,000 ARR last year on substack and you&#8217;re upset that you&#8217;re down to $20,000 now, instead of trying to get back to 50k, why not try to get to 100k? and beyond? reprogram your mind, see a future that is bigger than your present (and your past), and work toward it every day. if you believe it and work toward it (consistently), it will become your reality.</p></li><li><p>reinvent the wheel!!!! if it&#8217;s not working, and your subscribers are dwindling, what can you do to totally change your strategy? how about start a new series, work on your hooks, create a marketing funnel (IG to substack to your other newsletter and beyond), or write about new topics entirely. not to be mean&#8230; but maybe your audience just isn&#8217;t interested in the type of content you&#8217;re sharing right now? (I teach you how to create the marketing funnel in <a href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2">limitless</a>!)</p></li><li><p>stop giving us the bare minimum. if there&#8217;s one thing that the current state of the social media sphere has baked into us, it&#8217;s that&#8230; you can put out the bare minimum and it&#8217;s enough. no actually&#8230; it&#8217;s not enough. try harder. give more. if you&#8217;re going to complain and feel unhappy with where you&#8217;re at, try giving more (to both the writing and the strategy) and see where you are 3 months from now?</p></li><li><p>remember your why. do it for yourself at the end of the day. most of the time, others will not care about our art as much as we do. when they do, it&#8217;s a happy magnetic chasm of magic and understanding&#8212;but if they don&#8217;t&#8230; that&#8217;s okay too. when you do it for you, you can show up to the page even if nothing is happening.</p></li></ol><p>all of this to say&#8230; don&#8217;t give up. you&#8217;re not bad at writing, you might just be bad at marketing. and beyond that, you might also just not have discovered your own writing voice yet, or your content pillars, or your WHY.</p><p>with that, i want to cordially invite you to join us in <a href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2">LIMITLESS: my substack growth course</a> that teaches you how i went from $0 to $350k ARR on substack and counting!! we are kicking off cohort 2 on tuesday, august 4th, and i am SO excited. doors will close on monday at midnight and i will never be running this course live again. we had ~1,000 members in cohort 1, they are finishing up their 4 weeks as we speak, and they are all absolutely crushing it, supporting one another, and reclaiming their spaces on this glorious platform called substack! </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-to-350k-yearly?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-to-350k-yearly?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h4><strong>a few things to know about limitless:</strong></h4><ul><li><p><span>it&#8217;s a 4 week container, not a &#8220;watch it whenever and let it collect dust&#8221; course. although you WILL have forever access and you can take it at your own pace! every week unlocks a new piece of the framework, so you&#8217;re actually building your substack in real time instead of just hoarding information you&#8217;ll get to &#8220;someday.&#8221; this keeps you accountable! PLUS you do it with a live group of built-in creative bff&#8217;s!</span></p></li><li><p><span>you&#8217;re getting 200+ pages of material broken into 8 full post frameworks, so you&#8217;ll never be starting from a blank page again. plus 102 opening hooks across 17 different niches, because the hook is where most people lose their reader in the first three seconds and nobody ever teaches that part.</span></p></li><li><p><span>week 3 is where we get into pricing and paid offers, which is exactly the part everyone&#8217;s too scared to touch. i walk you through the actual structure i used to turn free readers into paying subscribers, and i encourage everyone to flip on paid that same week, whether you feel &#8220;ready&#8221; or not. (you&#8217;re not going to feel ready. that&#8217;s not the prerequisite. showing up is.)</span></p></li><li><p><span>there are 4 bonus posts included too: collaboration, viral notes, price increases, and writing when you&#8217;re completely stuck, because that happens to every single one of us, published author or not.</span></p></li><li><p><span>you get TWO live calls with me, kickoff and graduation, plus full replay access to all 4 live calls from cohort 1, so you&#8217;re basically getting two cohorts&#8217; worth of live content for the price of one.</span></p></li><li><p><span>there&#8217;s a live community chat and support pods, so you&#8217;re not doing this alone in a vacuum. you&#8217;ll have actual people cheering you on, reading your drafts, following your publication, holding you accountable when week 3 gets scary. this part alone has been the biggest surprise of cohort 1&#8212;the friendships that have come out of it are so beautiful to witness.</span></p></li></ul><h4><span>a few faqs, because i know you have them:</span></h4><ul><li><p><strong><span>do i need to already have a substack to join?</span></strong><span> nope. this works whether you&#8217;re starting from zero or you&#8217;ve been at this for years and just need the strategy to actually take off. i&#8217;ve had total beginners and six-figure writers in the same cohort, learning side by side.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>what if i can&#8217;t make the live calls? </span></strong><span>everything is recorded and dropped straight into your portal, right alongside the cohort 1 replays, so you&#8217;re never missing a thing even if life happens (and it will).</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>how much time do i actually need each week?</span></strong><span> this is designed to work around a real life, not replace one. you&#8217;re not glued to a screen for hours a day&#8212;you&#8217;re showing up, doing the work for that week&#8217;s framework, and moving at a pace that&#8217;s sustainable, not a pace that burns you out by week two.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>i&#8217;m scared to turn on paid subscriptions. is this going to force me?</span></strong><span> never. i&#8217;ll teach you the mindset and the exact strategy, and i&#8217;ll encourage you, hard, because i believe in you more than you believe in yourself right now. but the button is always yours to press, on your own timeline.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>is this only for a specific niche? not even a little. </span></strong><span>that&#8217;s why there are 102 hooks across 17 niches inside. wellness, business, spirituality, parenting, humor, fiction, whatever your soul is actually pulling you toward, this framework flexes to fit it.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>is there a payment plan? </span></strong><span>yes, you&#8217;ll find on the </span><a href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/offers/2YgpWBGj/checkout"><span>checkout page</span></a><span>, and i&#8217;d rather you use it than let the full price be the reason you sit this one out.</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>will you ever run this live again?</span></strong><span> i don&#8217;t know, and i&#8217;m not going to pretend i do but i highly doubt it. what i do know is that cohort 2 is the one that&#8217;s actually happening, right now, with real doors and a real deadline. !!</span></p></li><li><p><strong><span>what&#8217;s the refund policy?</span></strong><span> all sales are final, no refunds on digital products. i want you fully in, not halfway in with an exit ramp already built.</span></p></li></ul><p><span>doors close monday at midnight. i would love, love, love to have you in this one with us. join us and/or get more info </span><a href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2"><span>here</span></a><span>!</span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><span>and if you want more how-to&#8217;s on how i actually grew my platform from $0 to $350k ARR, you know where to finddd meee!! what&#8217;s your take? are you in camp &#8220;substack is on the decline&#8221; or on the rise?!?! you tell me and let&#8217;s walk through your thoughts together in the comments! also, leave any limitless questions below! xx</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[the lunar nodes shifted into aquarius — the misfits' time has come. here's what it means for your sign.]]></title><description><![CDATA[north node in aquarius: what to expect for the next 18 months]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/the-lunar-nodes-have-just-shifted</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/the-lunar-nodes-have-just-shifted</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:29:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bhXb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3767d69-0055-46e7-8b12-64f50a93d32b_5712x4284.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>helllooo from hawaii!! i'm writing to you today from my favorite place on earth, the island that raised me: maui. i&#8217;ve been in full family mode, swimming in the ocean with the kids every day, going down the same water slides i did as as a kid, adventuring the island and being as present as possible. also, it&#8217;s jonathan&#8217;s 40th birthday trip so we&#8217;ve been celebrating him and ringing in his next decade!</p><p>but i'd be lying if i didn&#8217;t tell you that i am feeling full to the brim with writing that wants to burst through me&#8212;thoughts and musings and astrology deep dives, fiction and memoir and a million things i want to share, yet i am trying to practice the art of relaxing on vacation and knowing that the writing will always be there. the life of a creative is a constant push-pull of diving into life with full presence, and feeling the tug of wanting to create at the same time. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bhXb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3767d69-0055-46e7-8b12-64f50a93d32b_5712x4284.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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me tell ya, i am excited because this is the ERA OF THE WEIRDOS!!! the more out there, the more authentically you, the deeper coded you are into who you truly came here to be, even (and especially) the shadowy and most eccentric parts of you, the better. these are the people who will come out on top over these next 18 months, especially because we are operating in the new paradigm. and especially because this is during the <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/what-the-cern-how-to-use-this-four">CERN shutdown</a>!!! </p><h3>first thing&#8217;s first: what is a north node? </h3><p><span>unlike jupiter, venus, mercury, sun, moon, etc., the north and south node are not planets. they&#8217;re not even physical objects, actually. they&#8217;re more like mathematical points, a.k.a the spots where the moon&#8217;s orbit crosses the sun&#8217;s path from the lens of earth. and when it comes to reading your birth chart, they are known as the single most fated, regarded, karmic axis points in your entire chart. </span></p><p><span>the nodes are always opposite from one another on the zodiac wheel. while the south node is where you&#8217;ve already been and the stuff that comes easily to you in this lifetime, the north node is the opposite. it&#8217;s your growth edge, your soul&#8217;s actual assignment for this lifetime, the unfamiliar yet completely resonate life&#8217;s work you step into more and more as you grow. it&#8217;s where expansion lives&#8212;it&#8217;s where you&#8217;re meant to be heading, even when the south node is whispering &#8220;just go back to what you know.&#8221;</span></p><p><span>so with that, let&#8217;s get into what the next 18 months will look like for each of you, based on your north node. we&#8217;ll break it down below, and i&#8217;ll tell you more about what living as an aquarius north node, leo south node has looked like for me, what kind of &#8220;life homework&#8221; assignments you will be handed over the next 18 months if i had to guess, and of course i&#8217;ll give you the exact blueprint to follow to come out on top, manifesting your highest and best as we head into this fresh wave.</span></p><p><span>also, don&#8217;t forget&#8212;doors to limitless have officially reopened and we will be kicking off cohort 2 on august 4th!!!!! this is my substack growth accelerator course. i guided round one in July, and now it&#8217;s time for round two. i will never lead it again live!!! </span><a href="https://meditation.thebalancedblonde.com/substack-limitless-course-2"><span>here is the link to get in on itttt!!!</span></a><span> would LOVE to have you. </span></p><h3>now, let&#8217;s get into the nodes!!! i'm going to give you the exact blueprint to follow to manifest your absolute best life over the next 18 months.</h3><p>ok so let me tell you a little story about being an aquarius north node, which of course also means i'm a leo south node&#8230; </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[what the CERN?! what is it and why did it shut down? a dissertation from your timeline hopping bestie]]></title><description><![CDATA[the machine shutdown, the mandela effect, how to manifest during this portal, and the 4-year window where we get our timeline back]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/what-the-cern-how-to-use-this-four</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/what-the-cern-how-to-use-this-four</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:19:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1VaT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2412d0e5-1b63-4736-8513-a01853bca435_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>it&#8217;s been a while since i've gone full-blown detective jordan research mode on you guys and it&#8217;s definitely time, because there is something going on here on earth right now (that&#8217;s right, we&#8217;re not talking about the cosmos today) that i can&#8217;t </span><em><span>not</span></em><span> write about. </span>&#128064;</p><p>the &#8220;thing&#8221; going on connects the dots between all of my greatest obsessions: parallel universes, timeline jumping, manifestation, consciousness, the mandela effect, the greater powers that be and how they&#8217;re influencing our lives and minds in ways far deeper than we realize, and even deeper stuff &#8212; think: cloning, illuminati, the list goes on &#8212; that we&#8217;ll leave out for today because i admit&#8230; it&#8217;s too much to spill all the tea in one place. and i want to keep this high vibe. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>you maaayyy have heard about it if your &#8220;for you&#8221; page looks anything like mine does, or if you run in the same spiritual, quantum, timeline hopping, energy bending circles that i do, but if not, we&#8217;re gonna start at the basics so no one gets left behind: </span></p><blockquote><p><em><strong><span>we&#8217;re talking about the CERN shut down. it dropped its final beams on June 27, 2026, kicking off &#8216;Long Shutdown 3&#8217; &#8212; the roughly four-year pause before it restarts around 2028, with full high-luminosity operations targeted for 2030.</span></strong></em></p></blockquote><p><span>and i'm sure many of you are thinking&#8230; &#8220;WTF is CERN?&#8221;</span></p><h3>soooo, that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going to begin. </h3><p><span>CERN is the world&#8217;s biggest machine &#8212; the Large Hadron Collider, the thing that&#8217;s been smashing particles together at basically the speed of light 20 miles outside of Geneva since 2008 &#8212; and it went dark at the end of June. they dumped the beams, they said their little goodbye on the dashboard, and now it&#8217;s sitting there, quiet, for the next four years.</span></p><p><span>and before you get turned off by this article because you&#8217;re not a science person and you have no idea what a Hadron Collider is supposed to be, don&#8217;t worry, because SAME. i'm going to break this down in laymen&#8217;s terms for us, and most importantly i'm going to address what this means for human consciousness AND for manifestation over the next four years.</span></p><p><span>in my opinion, it is NOOOO coincidence that this shutdown coincides with </span><a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/july-19-27-is-a-once-in-a-century"><span>barbault&#8217;s basket</span></a><span>, the one-in-a-century cosmic portal we are all living through right now, as well as Jupiter&#8217;s shift into Leo, the nodes shifting into Aquarius/Leo in just a few days, and basically the new paradigm priming us and inviting us to step into our fullest power and alignment every step of the way. </span></p><p><strong><span>as you read on, you&#8217;ll learn:</span></strong><span> what CERN is, what the scientists might have to say about it, what the spiritual crowd / conspiracy besties are noticing about the shutdown, the guy who mysteriously went missing when we started connecting the dots, whyyy this shutdown might actually be the best thing for us in terms of manifestation and elevating our own lives while it&#8217;s turned off, what to do to harness this energy between now and 2030 to accelerate our lives, and so much more.</span></p><p><span>YA READY??? as always, we&#8217;re coming from a high vibrational lens. AND we&#8217;re asking the hard hitting questions. i'd be doing y&#8217;all a disservice if we kept it only love and light. but we&#8217;ll keep it fun, and understandable, don&#8217;t worry. now, let&#8217;s dive in!</span></p><h3><em><strong>WHAT EVEN IS CERN????? &#128071;&#127995;&#128071;&#127995;&#128071;&#127995;</strong></em></h3>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[july 19-27 is a once-in-a-century portal — here's how to use it]]></title><description><![CDATA[the world we know is changing, and we're talking everything you need to do about it]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/july-19-27-is-a-once-in-a-century</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/july-19-27-is-a-once-in-a-century</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:01:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kZhc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8cef1a93-e67c-45fd-b53a-2b18cb170ce4_1320x2346.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>the world we&#8217;ve known ends this week, and i for one am absolutely thrilled about it.</span></p><p><span>we&#8217;ve been on the precipice of the new paradigm for years, and we&#8217;ve been feeling it pulling at our hearts and knocking on our soul&#8217;s door so intently for the last few months, and then these last few weeks all hell broke loose&#8230; think: </span><a href="/__u/substack.com/@thebalancedblonde/p-206486596"><span>ascension flu</span></a><span>, burnout, exhaustion, questioning our entire realities&#8230; you get the gist.</span></p><p><span>and i'm not saying that this is the first week of the new paradigm, because i actually feel that many of us have been easing into it ever since 2021-2022ish. but what i am saying is that there is a window of opportunity to leap into the aquarian age right now more than ever, and that window was predicated by andr&#233; barbault (an iconic French astrologer) shortly before his death. </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>and if you want to know how to harness it, what to do to leap into your new paradigm self this week, and how to use it as the acceleration portal i believe it to be&#8230; read on. i don&#8217;t like writing astrology content that ever makes you feel like you&#8217;re going to be &#8220;left behind&#8221; if you don&#8217;t do XY&amp;Z this week and this week alone, so don&#8217;t read it with that vibe in mind.</span></p><p><strong><span>instead, read it with this vibe in mind:</span></strong><span> if i know about this portal, and i know what to do with it, and i take a bet on myself during this once in a lifetime window of astrological activity, i will be 100 steps ahead of where i would have been otherwise.</span></p><p>see, never behind. always ahead. always exactly where you&#8217;re meant to be. and astrology gives us the kickstart and the cosmic luck, know-how, and alignment (plus a shit ton of fiery action and airy innovation this week) so that we can &#8220;skip the line&#8221; if you will and tell the universe who&#8217;s boss.</p><p>and idk if you&#8217;ve noticed&#8230; but i&#8217;ve been skipping the line a lot lately. from substack to IG (i hit 600k today, ahhhh!!!) to <a href="https://jordan-younger.mykajabi.com/substack-limitless-course-2">limitless</a> to <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-walked-away-from-a-book-deal-with">leaving my book deal</a> &amp; beyond&#8230; my life feels like it has entered an activation portal and i have never felt quite so on fire, aligned, or magnetic. </p><p><span>and before i tell you about all things barbault and what is known by astrologers all around the world as &#8220;barbault&#8217;s basket&#8221; and the cosmic portal it&#8217;s opening for us all, i want to tell you this&#8230;</span></p><p><span>i plan my life around astrology. why wouldn't i? as soon as you realize how absolutely potent and powerful it is and what an influence it has on all of our lives and successes, you will do the same. so although i was going to wait until august to officially relaunch limitless, my Substack Growth accelerator course with thousands of participants in round one (!!!), i&#8217;ve decided to reopen it TODAY, in line with barbault&#8217;s basket. </span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordan-younger.mykajabi.com/substack-limitless-course-2&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;you can officially get in here!!!!!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordan-younger.mykajabi.com/substack-limitless-course-2"><span>you can officially get in here!!!!!</span></a></p><p>join us at the link above. this cohort will close on august 4th, when we have this group&#8217;s first live kickoff call. but you get access to the starting materials the moment you join&#8212;meaning when you buy today (when, not if), you get to start now. you get to start creating the life of your dreams <em>today</em>. </p><p>this is new paradigm shit. this is what barbault was talking about. it&#8217;s our duty as aquarian leaders to take the reigns of our lives and start living in the new way&#8212;the old world has us stuck and chained. the new world is full of a million and one opportunities (infinite, really) and it&#8217;s calling you. and starting a substack that makes you legit $$ for just writing and sharing your passions is STEP ONE, in my humble opinion.</p><p><a href="https://jordan-younger.mykajabi.com/substack-limitless-course-2">join us, join us</a>, and LMK below in the comments if you have any questions! I AM SO EXCITED! you guys have been begging for this reopen, and i won&#8217;t be reopening the doors for another live cohort after this ever (legit for real), so now is the time. &lt;3</p><p>now, let&#8217;s get into barbault&#8230;!!!!!! and how in the heck we&#8217;re going to harness the portal that is this week to activate our intentions, our growth, our magic, our magnetism, and our new lives. </p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[i walked away from my dream book deal... here's why]]></title><description><![CDATA[the news you've been waiting for... ahhh the hugest step i've ever made]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-walked-away-from-a-book-deal-with</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-walked-away-from-a-book-deal-with</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:39:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8DcJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbaf368b8-bc9e-4058-8dc0-1ef7b03c8d6a_5712x4284.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it feels fitting that i&#8217;m writing this post in my bathrobe, on a staycation at the very ranch in malibu where i finished writing <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-got-a-book-deal-with-my-dream-publisher?utm_source=publication-search">my book</a> &#8212; or so i thought &#8212; at the end of last winter. and while i&#8217;ve been dying to share this news with you guys, something has begged me to hold it close to my chest for far longer than i thought i would&#8230; and i believe it&#8217;s because, this is one of the most emotional decisions i&#8217;ve ever made.</p><p>i&#8217;ve known that once i announce this to the world, it&#8217;s real. there will be excitement and support and perhaps confusion and many, many thoughts, and i welcome it all, but for the last month or so, this news has been mine. close to the heart, a lot to process, and honestly&#8230; equal parts thrilling and devastating, all at once.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[how i grew to 580k followers, with 120k of that landing in just 30 days]]></title><description><![CDATA[here's what to do & what NOT to do to grow like wildfire on social media, in an organic, natural, passion-fueled way]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/ive-grown-120k-followers-on-instagram</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/ive-grown-120k-followers-on-instagram</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:01:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a2fd508a-4da3-4700-ad9a-d73c21f883ac_1076x620.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>guys, the growth i&#8217;ve experienced this year has been crazy. it&#8217;s not lost on me that this level of growth is rare, it&#8217;s what people hope for their entire careers, it&#8217;s what i myself prayed for and 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WHAAAATTT. this after sitting at 220k for literally six years. from early 2020 to end of 2025!! and in this post, i will be sharing my ENTIRE PLAYBOOK with you, no stone left unturned. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>and no, i did not pay for followers, i did not run a giveaway, i did not suddenly become a different person overnight (well, i did become a different person over the last many years but we&#8217;ll get there). what actually happened is way less glamorous than that and way more repeatable, so buckle up, because i&#8217;m about to tell you the actual mechanics instead of the vague &#8220;just be consistent and post good content&#8221; advice everyone gives you when they don&#8217;t actually want to explain how they did it.</p><p>but first, i need to kick this post off by saying: <strong>thank you. </strong>i wouldn&#8217;t be able to write this or share any of this techniques and mindset shifts if there was no one on the other end receiving the words or following along and making this acceleration portal happen, so seriously&#8212;thank you. i genuinely feel i have the best community on the internet, i love you all like family, and we are only just getting started.</p><p>and i know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230; &#8220;just getting started?!?! jordan, you&#8217;ve been doing this for 14 years!!&#8221; yep, exactly. &#128514;</p><p>14 years of showing up every day. 14 years of honing, pouring passion into, connecting with and sending hours (no, YEARS at this point hehe) worth of DM&#8217;s, emails, voice notes and heartfelt messages back and forth with you guys. 10 years of podcasting (even when i started to hate it, whoops), 10 years of speaking on stages, many years of in-person retreats, and that entire time, if you&#8217;d asked me&#8230;</p><p>&#8220;what&#8217;s your one true dream?&#8221;</p><p>i would have told you, &#8220;to grow enough so that i can just write for a living.&#8221;</p><p>and ladies and gents, that&#8217;s where we are today. except because i'm me, i'm doing a lot more than just writing at the moment (<a href="https://thebalancedblonde.kit.com/261433bc40">limitless cohort</a>, anyone?!) but that&#8217;s what i'll be doing again soon enough and it&#8217;s all because of this accelerated growth that has truly been a tipping point in my life.</p><p><strong>so in this post, we&#8217;ll be getting into the following&#8230;</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>how i've actually grown 120k followers in 30 days (no fluff, the real deets for you)</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>the exact playbook you can follow to do the same</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>why some people grow, and some people don&#8217;t</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>what NOT to do if you want to grow </strong></p></li><li><p><strong>the energetics / spirituality of growth</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>SO MUCH MORE!!</strong></p></li></ul><p>ready? let&#8217;s dive on in. if you&#8217;ve been thinking about upgrading to paid&#8230; today is definitely the day. ;)</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[i don't believe in sickness, i believe in ascension symptoms. my most recent cellular upgrade & the astrology behind it]]></title><description><![CDATA[today is gonna be a hot take&#8230; ascension symptoms. cellular upgrades. sickness to heal, cleanse, detox and recalibrate.]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-dont-believe-in-sickness-i-believe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-dont-believe-in-sickness-i-believe</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:26:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dh7U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427226a9-0701-4e6f-a4ba-d8277c8fd939_5712x4284.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok guys, today is gonna be a hot take&#8230; ascension symptoms. cellular upgrades. sickness to heal, cleanse, detox and recalibrate.</p><p>and i ALREADY KNOW the girlies who don&#8217;t want to hear it are gonna be like, &#8220;but that&#8217;s not true and sickness is terrible&#8221; and blah blah blah and yes&#8212;it is. i don&#8217;t wish sickness on anyone. and it&#8217;s not the <em>only</em> way to upgrade. but in my experience, it&#8217;s always been part of my process. the same is true for many others.</p><p>that actually has to do with our astrology and i'll get into exactly <em>why</em> that is and which astro types fit into this category below!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dh7U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427226a9-0701-4e6f-a4ba-d8277c8fd939_5712x4284.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dh7U!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_424, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427226a9-0701-4e6f-a4ba-d8277c8fd939_5712x4284.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dh7U!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_848, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427226a9-0701-4e6f-a4ba-d8277c8fd939_5712x4284.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dh7U!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1272, 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/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427226a9-0701-4e6f-a4ba-d8277c8fd939_5712x4284.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dh7U!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F427226a9-0701-4e6f-a4ba-d8277c8fd939_5712x4284.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>so, here&#8217;s the dealio. the last few days i've been throwing up so violently from the stomach flu and whatever else is going on in my body that i legit gave myself whiplash. it&#8217;s been AWFUL. this sickness came on very spur of the moment around 10pm on delilah&#8217;s birthday (thankfully, after a full day of celebrations for my perfect princess), but when i look back at my last few weeks i feel like it was percolating right beneath the surface the whole time.</p><p>exhibit A&#8230; see this text thread with jonathan from about a week ago. my body was already getting to its breaking point:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s0i5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8032db07-f0c7-40ad-b67a-b89d98443411_1320x886.png" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>that was one of many. for days i was basically inundating him with, &#8220;omg, my entire body aches,&#8221; texts. and truthfully&#8230; whenever a full body breakdown is creeping at my door, i know without a shadow of a doubt that it&#8217;s going to take me over. it&#8217;s just a matter of when. but even now, even with all i've learned, even with my history of Lyme disease and everything it taught me, i still like to play this game called: &#8220;how intensely can i run myself ragged before this sickness catches up with me?&#8221;</p><p>a.k.a i try to outrun the inevitable.</p><p>maybe it&#8217;s because i'm a rebel, a perfectionist, a type A overachiever, or maybe it&#8217;s because these days i&#8217;m juggling more career-wise than ever before (while simultaneously mom-ing and wife-ing and all the things), but i just don&#8217;t like to take &#8220;no&#8221; for an answer. from anyone. even a sickness. &#128514;</p><p>but here&#8217;s the thing, i don&#8217;t actually believe in sicknesses. i KNOW, I KNOW. don&#8217;t shoot the messenger, ok!?!?!? i believe in ascension symptoms. i believe that when our bodies break down, it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re entering cellular upgrade mode to the highest degree. and it always happens when we are going through a big, huge, massive life up level.</p><p>which i definitely currently am. even one of my <a href="https://thebalancedblonde.kit.com/261433bc40">limitless</a> course members clocked it!! &#128071;&#127995;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wC4r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5843d07-bb0f-45f5-9c68-1ab733fadd9a_1582x454.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>so today, i'm telling you what came up for me on this level of the ascension symptom smackdown. it may have been my most transformative yet&#8230; i was between realms, traveling between this reality and a parallel dimension where i was in the middle of an ayahuasca ceremony, all sorts of energies (both dark and light) were coming to speak to me, and i was in a battle to get the dark energy away from me. it was A LOT. then, my angels came and offered me a way out. </p></div><p>yes, all of this happened two nights ago. just, you know, a casual wednesday for me. &#128514;</p><h3><strong>you&#8217;re not going to want to skip this one. read on for the tea&#8230; and the astrology placements that show how it was literally written in the stars for me to learn my greatest lessons through physical illness: </strong></h3>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[my psychic awakening journey in a nutshell: how i finally came home to myself (and how you can, too)]]></title><description><![CDATA[the story of how i stopped outsourcing my intuition, came back into my body, and became my own authority]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/my-spiritual-awakening-journey-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/my-spiritual-awakening-journey-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:30:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N-I2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdd2df9d-595d-4071-a5a4-1db407dc282d_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;you know you&#8217;re one of us too, right?&#8221;</p><p>&#128070;&#127995; that&#8217;s what psychic after psychic would say to me at the end of every podcast interview, starting in 2016 when i was just a girl in my mid-20s trying to figure it all out. </p><p>i spent years not believing it. or&#8230; believing it, but not believing that i could be as powerful as they were because i didn&#8217;t think i had it in me. the pivot from influencer and content creator to spiritual teacher has been a very real one for me, and i&#8217;ve had to let go of so many blocks and limiting beliefs about myself along the way. but i&#8217;m here to say, ten years later, i&#8217;m doing it. and it feels good. so i&#8217;m spilling all the tea. </p><p>today i&#8217;m telling you the whole story of how i stopped ignoring my intuition and woke up to my true psychic nature. yes, ALL of it. the &#8220;awakening tour&#8221; i went on in 2016, the pleiadians and who the heck they actually are, the time i saw a shaman&#8217;s face turn into a full-blown galaxy and i thought i was losing my marbles, and the health crisis that nearly took me out. because here&#8217;s the reality: my psychic awakening was NOT love and light.</p><p>it was more like&#8230; death and destruction and complete rebirth from the inside out &#8212; like the true 12th house stellium that i am. &#128514; <em>*cue the music&#8230; &#8216;started from the bottom, now we here.&#8217;*</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N-I2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdd2df9d-595d-4071-a5a4-1db407dc282d_4032x3024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N-I2!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_424, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_webp, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>i've told pieces of this before, but never all in one place &#8212; until now. the most exciting part of the story in my eyes is where i am today, as i now feel quite integrated as the &#8220;bridge between worlds&#8221; i&#8217;ve been stepping into for the last decade and a half. and yes, i will always be integrating, because i am a forever student in this process. but death and destruction no more &#8212; i truly feel i&#8217;m living in the light now. if you want the deets of all deets on that and how to meet me there, in the fullness of the light, read on&#8230; </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;join paid! best community online&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe"><span>join paid! best community online</span></a></p><p>i should have known i was destined to be a psychic, because when i started my podcast over a decade ago the <em>only</em> people i was interested in having on my show were psychics, mediums, spiritual guides, crystal healers, reiki masters, numerologists, kundalini teachers, and so on. </p><p><strong>and when each of them came on, there was a singular theme that they would say to me at the end of each pod conversation, and it was&#8230;</strong></p><p>&#8220;you know you&#8217;re one of us too, right?&#8221;</p><p>&#128561;</p><p>the first time i heard it, i thought, &#8220;i wish.&#8221;</p><p>the second time, i allowed myself to think, &#8220;well, maybe&#8230; i have always felt connected and different and very spiritual&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>the third time, i got full body chills.</p><p>by the fourth time, i was beginning to remember snippets of childhood where i was still in tune with my gifts, before i&#8217;d shut them off. (like seeing ghosts all throughout my room and willing myself to believe they couldn&#8217;t possibly be real &#8212; as young as the age of 3!)</p><p>and by the fifth time, i was like, &#8220;YEP, let&#8217;s go. i&#8217;m going to need a mentor because it&#8217;s time for me to dive fully into unlocking these gifts.&#8221;</p><p>and that, my friends, is where things start to get interesting&#8230; &#128071;&#127995;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[i made more money in 30 days than i did all of last year — here's exactly what changed]]></title><description><![CDATA[i took the biggest risk of my career & suddenly became limitless]]></description><link>https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-made-more-money-in-30-days-than</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-made-more-money-in-30-days-than</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:22:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QDSY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbbcf41-8d5b-4735-9bb2-969473b7df76_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi guys. i&#8217;m currently sitting outside of the spa at our beach club &#8212; the membership i manifested several months back after deciding that i was ready to expand my life and have everything i want and then some&#8230; and have it now and not in the future, lol, because that&#8217;s the way my brain works.</p><p>i just dropped attie off at camp, i have a massage here in about an hour, and then i&#8217;ll go to the gym. it feels like the perfect day, after one of the most intense and joyful launch weeks of my life! we will get into that below. and btw, today is a free post. because the topic of today&#8217;s is so important, so juicy, so resonant, i want everyone and their mother to be able to soak it in. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Your support makes my dreams come true. &lt;3</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>my thankfulness for this abundance and sense of ease is off the charts. before i started writing just now, i did a little gratitude meditation and sent it out to all of you. i hope you can feel it. <strong>here&#8217;s some photo evidence: </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QDSY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbbcf41-8d5b-4735-9bb2-969473b7df76_4032x3024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbbcf41-8d5b-4735-9bb2-969473b7df76_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QDSY!, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cbbcf41-8d5b-4735-9bb2-969473b7df76_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>and here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; i created this life for myself, and even just six months ago it wouldn&#8217;t have been my reality. that&#8217;s how quickly we can shift our lives when we are committed, embodying our future self, and in devotion to our craft and what truly lights us up. not to mention, i work extremely hard, and i never want to act like hard work isn&#8217;t a part of this.</p><p><strong>my ultimate manifestation recipe right now: </strong>have a clear vision of what i want + have the devotion and drive to go after it + hard work and pouring hours and energy into the vision like you wouldn&#8217;t even imagine + live as if the future is already here. and slowly but surely, that will become your life. not MAYBE, not &#8220;only if i hit the jackpot,&#8221; like definitely. but hard work is the key component and i find that&#8217;s what most are not willing to do&#8230; or even if they are willing, they walk away right before things start to officially shift.</p><p>because hard work on the good days isn&#8217;t quite what always pays off. it&#8217;s the hard work you pour in on the challenging days, the days when it feels like no one is listening, the sales are not rolling in, the ideas are blocked, and the future feels far off. it&#8217;s the consistency and discipline during the months and sometimes even years of zero growth (yep, been there) but the willingness to show up anyway. and beyond willingness &#8212; the e<em>xcitement </em>to<em> </em>show up anyway. because you love what you do. because you&#8217;d do it even if no one paid you. because it&#8217;s your gift and your joy.</p><p>and now, 14 years into my career and six months into completely betting on myself, i&#8217;m sitting here realizing, &#8216;holy shit. i did it. i did this. i created this. the future i&#8217;ve been envisioning is here and now.&#8217;</p><p>and i&#8217;m determined to relish in it, and to celebrate. because it took a lot to get here. because many days, i didn&#8217;t know if i&#8217;d ever get here. so please as i share these details with you don&#8217;t take my joy as me bragging about something that i have&#8212;take it as me expanding you to show you what&#8217;s possible. i am no different than you, i&#8217;m just someone who&#8217;s done the thing. and who will continue to do the thing, every damn day. i crawled out of the darkest nights of my own soul and i made this life happen.</p><p>as recently as february of this year, i felt stuck at the most intense crossroads of my life. then i made some hard decisions and they payed off. and now, i&#8217;m here, and this is only the beginning. &#128557;</p><p><em>current view:</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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leap), and the more i leaned into <em>who i am now </em>vs. who i used to be&#8230; the more i knew, it was time to step away from the podcast. maybe not forever, but certainly for a time being.</p><iframe class="spotify-wrap podcast" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8aed7c17e4d65548ea89d4d2a9&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;470. 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</em>on and on.</p><p><strong>the new paradigm is:</strong> <em>what if you had the courage to take the leap? what if you followed your gut and intuition, the one that is SCREAMING at you to listen? what if you trusted, took the leap, and fully embodied when it would mean to walk away from this now? you will be rewarded. you just have to trust.</em></p><p>and even though my rational brain was kicking and screaming, i chose the new paradigm way.</p><p>i paused my podcast and went all in on substack. i grew my paid subscription revenue on this platform from roughly $70k/year to $350k/yr and counting. i also knew that i needed to follow the path of the true aquarian leader and start leading live cohorts and groups of people &#8212; women and men from all over the world who are ready to wake up and become leaders in their own right.</p><p>i leaned HARD into my true gift and talent, which is writing. i leaned away from everything that no longer served me. not only did i pause the pod, i walked away from many &#8220;soul contracts,&#8221; i.e. friendships, even some family relationships (albeit distant ones) that sucked the energy from my life. i walked away even from old patterns and habits of myself, and committed every day to living as the future version of me.</p><p>and that&#8217;s the lifestyle i live now, which i&#8217;ve coined &#8220;limitless.&#8221; being limitless, to me, simply means you are willing to live a life with no limits and no glass ceilings. you&#8217;re constantly upleveling yourself, staying in the ease and flow, not taking life too seriously, and listening to the pings of your intuition. people who are limitless lead by example and jump into the deep end before the transitions make sense. and ultimately, they are rewarded, because they&#8217;ve done the hard shit. and now they guide others through it.</p><p>launching my limitless cohort over these last few weeks has been the greatest joy. the doors are closed now for our first live round, but you can get on the <a href="https://thebalancedblonde.kit.com/261433bc40">waitlist for a future reopening here</a>. guiding this group thus far (we&#8217;ve already had 3 live calls, including the <a href="/__u/thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/limitless-free-masterclass-a-spiritual">free masterclass</a> here on substack!) shows me HOW much i enjoy guiding a live group of likeminded people into becoming the highest versions of themselves. point blank. so these live cohorts are only just at the very beginning&#8230; and i am sooo excited to keep building from here.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>the ultimate result of betting on myself?</h3><p>this month alone, i made more in one singular 30 day period than i made ALL OF LAST YEAR alone. let that sink in. and last year, i wasn&#8217;t doing poorly. i was at the top of my game as a &#8220;top podcast host,&#8221; if that tells you anything. but this is the next level. this is true alignment. true ease. true joy. and i would make this decision ten times over, in the exact sequence and time frame it was made, because it was divine. </p><p>you guys know i&#8217;m an open book, and i&#8217;ve shared a lot of specific numbers with you. but for this month specifically, i&#8217;ll leave some details to the imagination. i believe in expanding people by sharing the granular details without also being braggy and overly specific when it doesn&#8217;t feel right. but just know &#8212; last month. alone. more than my ENTIRE year last year. and this month i&#8217;m on track to make even more than last month.</p><p><em>let thank sink in&#8230; because that can also be you. </em></p><p>you can be limitless, because you ARE limitless.</p><p>we were all born limitless, we just have to learn how to tap back into it.</p><p>even though the doors to my cohort are now closed, get on the waitlist for our next round <a href="https://thebalancedblonde.kit.com/261433bc40">here</a>. and check out this post below for how i got to the &#8216;next level&#8217; (the one before this level hahaha) if you are expanded by this story. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;73f7e75a-c465-4287-b914-9fe18a45282e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;hi, hi and welcome! we&#8217;ve recently hit a big milestone here on substack as evidenced by the title of this post (eep!!!), so i thought it was high time to dive back into our mindset shift series, a.k.a the space where we talk about:&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;how i make $150k extra a year on substack just by being myself&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:49977252,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Younger&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Mother, author, astrology obsessed, spiritual being. 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Guiding you back to your soul. &#129725;&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1eeaf8c-8020-4892-8a86-d326caa919bc_2401x3600.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:1000}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21T18:49:32.027Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B-ld!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F545749ac-2bba-41c9-a8fa-dda792de136e_4284x5712.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/how-i-make-150k-extra-a-year-on-substack&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:194945203,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:80,&quot;comment_count&quot;:20,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1628357,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Balanced Blonde&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_ZgG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F344b96c9-60e7-48eb-946a-6aea7b59125d_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>i have so much more to say, and i will keep sharing with you. i&#8217;ve always been an open book and i won&#8217;t be stopping now. </p><p>next week, i&#8217;m dropping a huge announcement here on substack about the next &#8220;new paradigm&#8221; decision i&#8217;ve made in my career&#8230; the one that made ZERO SENSE from the outside looking in, but the one that made all of the sense to my soul. any guesses? you hear for it? let&#8217;s hear it.</p><p>i also want to hear all of your thoughts below on this story. do you relate at all? where are you in the journey? tell me. i respond to every comment. &amp; if it resonated, please share with a friend (or 5!!) - this post is free and i want it to reach as many people as it can. &lt;3 </p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/i-made-more-money-in-30-days-than?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The Balanced Blonde! 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isPermaLink="false">https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/p/jupiter-just-moved-into-leo-and-i</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Younger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:00:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l2e3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7726c530-63a2-43c1-902a-280395853cce_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>yo yo yo, jupiter has officially moved into leo. and i&#8217;m going to tell you all about what that means. but before i do&#8230; i want you to just think for a second. how have you been feeling over the last few days? have you felt any sort of shift in your energy, your self-confidence, your worth, your relationship to expansion, money, or time? </span></p><p><span>if so&#8230; you&#8217;re already feeling the jupiter shift. and if not, don&#8217;t worry, it literally only just shifted yesterday and 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>for this particular transit, i can speak from personal experience to a whole new level because my native jupiter is in leo, in the 7th house. if you too have jupiter in leo, let me tell you &#8212; the next 13 months we are about to be in for a wild ride. our luck has been ignited, our expansion is absolutely on lock, and we are on such an accelerated fast track to the ultimate success and our highest and greatest manifestations coming to life. it&#8217;s not even funny.</span></p><p><span>my fellow jupiter in leo peeps&#8230; I SEE YOU! this is our time!!!</span></p><p><span>but if you have jupiter literally anywhere else, don&#8217;t fear. for the next 13 months, you get to use this energy of the collective jupiter in leo to experience your own luck and magnetism. and i&#8217;m going to tell you exactly how, for your exact sign and jupiter house, in this post. i&#8217;ll use my own personal experience as a reference point so you understand what i&#8217;m talking about &#8212; remember, i keep astrology basic &amp; understandable for you, that&#8217;s my secret sauce. </span></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thebalancedblonde.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Balanced Blonde is a reader-supported publication. 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